New book by CHN Senior Fellow J. Ronald Engel presented at the Hague before Queen Beatrix

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New book by CHN Senior Fellow J. Ronald Engel presented at the Hague before Queen Beatrix

July 23rd, 2010

The book being presented to Queen Beatrix by President of KIT Publishers, Jan Donner

The Earth Charter: A Framework for Global Governance, edited by Center for Humans and Nature Senior Fellow J. Ronald Engel and Klaus Bosselmann, was presented to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands at an event in June at the Hague, honoring the 10th anniversary of the Earth Charter. The book will be available in September 2010 from KIT publishers.

From the Earth Charter announcement, “This book examines some key features of international environmental law such as state sovereignty, global governance, sustainable development and the precautionary principle. With a focus on current failures and shortcomings, the text analyzes The Earth Charter’s potential to provide a legal framework for future global governance.”

The genesis of this publication was an LLM course, Law, Ethics and Governance for Sustainability, taught by Professors Engel and Bosselmann at the University of Auckland School of Law, with the assistance of CHN Global Director Kathryn Kintzele as a Visiting Fellow of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law. The book includes several articles from students in this course.